Impact Investing
Student Finance: A New Frontier for Impact Investing?
Student-lending innovations from emerging markets could expand access to education.
Tag: Employment
Understanding why people are out of work and innovative ways to provide them with jobs
Business
The Secret to Transformative Scale: Hire Right
When it comes to an organization’s ability to achieve impact, outstanding people make the difference.
Foundations
The Artful Juggler
Foundation CEOs play a complex, ever-more-demanding role—a role that may not lend itself to on-the-job training.
Nonprofit Management
To Reach Transformative Scale, Transform the Conversation
Scaling impact is much bigger than scaling an enterprise.
Human Rights
The Environmental Movement’s Unfunded Army
Why fostering diversity among senior leadership at environmental organizations is important to the success of the environmental movement.
Nonprofit Management
A New Study of Collective Impact Efforts
With Wallace Foundation backing, Columbia University’s Teachers College sets out to learn from past initiatives, document current ones, and find answers to complex questions.
Urban Development
What Makes a “World-Class” City?
Planners must shift their attention to the informal economy that is the invisible engine of true urban greatness.
Social Entrepreneurship
Seven Elements of Social Innovation
A new framework emerges for social innovation education.
Philanthropy
Grantmaking, Public Policy…and Tums
Exemplary grantmakers follow evidence, not presumptions, and recognize that effective strategy requires transforming enough things, not everything.
Social Entrepreneurship
Attracting the Right Financing for First-Stage Scaling
Growing social enterprises from incubation to first-stage scaling opens up the need to attract different types of investments. The last of a three-part series.